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Spielvogel Award

About the Hilde Spielvogel Award for Outstanding Presentation by an Undergraduate Student

The Spielvogel Award (established in 2014) recognizes the outstanding presentation (paper or poster) by an undergrad student at the Annual Meeting. Papers/posters are evaluated on the basis of the quality of the research, analysis and presentation by the HBA Publications Committee. 

Winners will be publicly announced and recognized upon completion of the meeting.

Undergraduate students are eligible for this award if they meet the following criteria:

1. The student is the first author AND presenter of the paper/poster.

2. The paper/poster is based on novel analysis and interpretation of primary data (collected by the student and/or a co-author/co-authors) and/or secondary data (published or unpublished data collected by someone other than the author[s]). 

3. The candidate for the award is the primary contributor to: a) project conception, b) data collection (if primary data), and/or c) data analysis.


2024 Spielvogel Award Winner: Lea Mira Raha

Congratulations to Lea Mira Raha, our 2024 Hilde Spielvogel Award winner!

Lea receives the award for her outstanding poster presentation, “Lifecourse discrimination and mental health experiences among South Asian immigrant adults in the United States: A qualitative study” at the HBA Annual Meeting in Los Angeles.




Recipients of the Hilde Spielvogel Award for Outstanding Presentation by an Undergraduate Student

2014 Rebecca Bedwell 

2014 William Olson 

2015 Natasha Hoehn 

2016 Jonah Stone

2017 Joshua Miller

2018 Caroline Owens

2019 Kate Tanawattanacharoen

2021 Kaspars Mikelsteins

2022 Suzanna Alejandra Geisel-Zamora

2023 Zag McDowall

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